~ Adventures with the Peace Corps

Darien Book Aid Plan, Inc…again!

A 15lb shipment of books from Darien Book Aid Plan, Inc. to help my 11th formers prepare for University entrance exams (and learn to love English in general). Can you spot the Wordly Wise book?…the bane of my middle school reading classes!

Be careful, if you use your phone in my class it might end up in Jail!

The books were neatly stacked until my 11th formers saw them and attacked!

Ukrainian National Anthem

Ukraine is not yet dead, nor its glory and freedom,
Luck will still smile on us brother-Ukrainians.
Our enemies will die, as the dew does in the sunshine,
and we, too, brothers, we'll live happily in our land.
We'll not spare either our souls or bodies to get freedom
and we'll prove that we brothers are of Kozak kin.
We'll rise up, brothers, all of us, from the Sain to the Don,
We won't let anyone govern in out motherland.
The Black Sea will smile yet, grandfather Dnipro will rejoice,
Yet in our Ukraine luck will be high.
Our persistence, our sincere toil will prove its rightness,
still our freedom's loud song will spread throughout Ukraine.
It'll reflect upon the Carpathians, will sound through the steppes,
and Ukraine's glory will arise among the people.